Ms Sy Nae Kim > Yulchon > Seoul, South Korea > Lawyer Profile

Yulchon
PARNAS TOWER 38F, 521 TEHERAN-RO
GANGNAM-GU
SEOUL 06164
South Korea

Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Partner

Career

Sy Nae Kim is a partner at Yulchon, who primarily practices in the areas of cross-border disputes (including international arbitration), restructuring and insolvency related disputes and related advisory matters. She regularly represents and advises clients on general corporate matters, finance/insolvency related matters, automobile, aerospace, shipping and shipbuilding related matters.

  • 2011-present Yulchon LLC
  • 2017-2018  Visiting Lawyer, Kobre & Kim LLP, Washington D.C. Office

Languages

Korean, English, Japanese

Education

  • 2017 Georgetown University Law Center LL.M.
  • 2011  Judicial Research and Training Institute, the Supreme Court of Korea
  • 2001  Korea University, LL.B.

Lawyer Rankings

South Korea > Dispute resolution: local firms

(Next Generation Partners)

Sy Nae KimYulchon

Praised as ‘one of the top firms in Korea’, Yulchon houses an ‘outstanding’ practice, handling a broad range of corporate and financial cases, while branching out into cryptocurrency and blockchain-related disputes. The team has an established reputation, representing major Korean conglomerates in domestic disputes and working on the Korean exchange, co-led by post-M&A arbitration specialist Il Bong Moon. Other practice head Yong Pyo Yeom handles debt and equity matters, and advises on contentious construction, tax and real estate disputes. Elsewhere, Sy Nae Kim is an esteemed advocate in public and private international disputes, particularly in the trade and logistics sectors, while Ik Hyun Kim handles trust, white-collar crime and product liability cases. The team has been further boosted with the arrival of arbitration expert David MacArthur.